{"id":3513,"date":"2010-02-14T14:10:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T19:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2022-06-04T09:19:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T14:19:30","slug":"clustr-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/clustr-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Clustr-ed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You might notice something a little different on the page template of Twelve Mile Circle today. I&#8217;ve decided to add a ClustrMap after more soul-searching and internal debate that you might image. You may be wondering why this was a difficult choice. After all, what would be more appropriate for a geo-oddities blog than a nicely rendered world map of visitor locations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/winobrothers\/5763272609\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3377\/5763272609_aaef0ecc47_b.jpg\" alt=\"Cluster. Photo by Matt and Martin; (CC BY-NC 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Quite a Cluster!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I&#8217;m still not absolutely certain I&#8217;ll keep it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My natural inclination towards privacy is battling with my geographic tendencies. My concern is that regular readers will be revealed over time, especially ones arriving on the site from rural areas. I know from my weblogs that a number of loyal readers visit each time I post something new (thank you!). Multiply that by a few months and it will produce a fairly significant dot in the range of 100-999 visits. I temper this somewhat because of the low resolution of the map. It&#8217;s difficult to pinpoint exact locations even with the large world map that results from someone clicking the image on my website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also serves as a constant reminder to me and to anyone else on the Intertubes. Namely, that the community of geo-oddity aficionados is pretty small. Personally I believe there should be tens of thousands if not millions of like minded individuals interested in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=1446\">45X90 spot<\/a>. You and I know that but we&#8217;re connoisseurs of anomalies. Inexplicably, however, that&#8217;s not the case with the rest of the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowhere else do I spend so much time for such a select readership. I love doing this because I&#8217;m constantly learning new things. 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Analytics includes great statistics from a summary level but it can&#8217;t segment data except in narrow prescribed bands. If I were to design my blog from scratch today, knowing what I know now, I would place it on a separate domain. Then all would be wonderful. However I didn&#8217;t do that two years ago when I started Twelve Mile Circle. So Google Analytics doesn&#8217;t give me a way to use a full set of tools for just one portion of my website. I can&#8217;t produce an equivalent of a ClustrMap for the Twelve Mile Circle chunk of my website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also I&#8217;ve noticed that other geography-based websites that I enjoy and respect use ClustrMaps. If it&#8217;s good enough for them, I figure, it&#8217;s good enough for me too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway I&#8217;ll give it a try. 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